tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post2169060702704965831..comments2024-03-28T03:13:15.831-04:00Comments on Remarkable: Live Free or Die Hard ReviewGeoff Klockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-27653899265927981312007-07-02T11:12:00.000-04:002007-07-02T11:12:00.000-04:00Meant to see this on Saturday. A multi-car pile-u...Meant to see this on Saturday. A multi-car pile-up on the 101 blocked traffic and caused me to be too late make the time. So I got a car wash instead.<BR/><BR/>Oh well, maybe this week. Though I'm already sick of the whole yippe-ki-yay thing, and I've never seen any previous Die Hard's.Dante Kleinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352526035841213773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-23076013766714101642007-07-01T19:59:00.000-04:002007-07-01T19:59:00.000-04:00Mary Elizabeth Winstead is mother****ing beautiful...Mary Elizabeth Winstead is mother****ing beautiful. I loved her since I saw her on an episode of "Tru Calling"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-86443724350217470982007-07-01T14:45:00.000-04:002007-07-01T14:45:00.000-04:00The second Die Hard is pretty nice, despite being ...The second Die Hard is pretty nice, despite being completely ridiculous and stealing shamelessly from Woo's THE KILLER. It's got a great bit with a pre-TERMINATOR 2 Robert Patrick, making him (I'm pretty sure) the only actor to be killed by all of the founders of Planet Hollywood.<BR/><BR/>They also filmed some of the early bits of DHW/AV in my neighborhood, so Jeremy Irons dynamiting my subway was a very real concern in third grade.Le Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05242378351959159148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-24706035753076171162007-07-01T12:53:00.000-04:002007-07-01T12:53:00.000-04:00Marc: that guy is lame. this is what he said"Frank...Marc: that guy is lame. <BR/><BR/>this is what he said<BR/><BR/>"Frankly I think the ad campaign is annoying as fuck. This only encourages kids and pre-teens to use the word "mother-fucker" more often, no doubt giggling about it in class, and otherwise contributing to our harsher, crasser, more violent, gun-crazed, ever more dumbed-down society. Hee-hee, mother-fucker! Mother-fucker! It's on buses everywhere! Mother-fucker! It's so cooool! Blow everything up! Awesome! I love death!"<BR/><BR/>"I happen to think curse words, when used repetitively, are an indication of a poor vocabulary and a general lack of education."<BR/><BR/>To be fair to him he does note the hypocracy of using curse words himself to make his points. But the argument that curse words destroy society is just silly, and I have Emerson on my side for the second point -- Emerson said he would like to be able to talk like a sailor in public and use ALL of the words to express himself, not just some of them; he also said his essay "Consistancy" should have been called "Damn consistancy."Geoff Klockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-27667600717348949592007-07-01T11:39:00.000-04:002007-07-01T11:39:00.000-04:00Over at my blog more than a month ago, I blogged a...Over at my blog more than a month ago, I blogged about the bus ad for "Die Hard 4" FIVE MINUTES after I saw it - it was an awesome thrill to communicate my ideas on something so instantaneously. Anyway, I got some fellow blogger (who I'd never heard of before) posting an opposing opinion. Pretty interesting stuff, to say the least. Check it out (http://www.marcscomichut.blogspot.com)<BR/><BR/>Dying to see the film ASAP myself. And if the cameo was who I think it was - not a spoiler - he was in the trailers)Marc Caputohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293532769174212726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-74161554155216765182007-07-01T09:39:00.000-04:002007-07-01T09:39:00.000-04:00As far as "old guy returning to/reinventing a bloc...As far as "old guy returning to/reinventing a blockbuster" type movies go, it wasn't as poignant as Rocky Balboa or as plain good as Casino Royale. Hell, it wasn't even as good as Die Hard With A Vengeance. But it was better than the last 5 action movies I've seen since Casino Royale. Here's to hoping the splatterhouse John Rambo movie turns out to be good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-8569406450265646872007-06-30T17:24:00.000-04:002007-06-30T17:24:00.000-04:00MH, yeah but he is an unkillable machine for the r...MH, yeah but he is an unkillable machine for the rest of the film. You are right that they go for emotional vulnerability, but he has no physical vulnerability. But again, that was their point. I think it makes sense he should have no vulnerability. <BR/><BR/>A McClane/Bauer team up should be written and drawn by Frank Miller, and they should fight the newly combined forces of Robocop and Terminator. Then for the sequel, McClane and Bauer and Robocop and all the Terminators can fight ninjas, pirates, aliens (including Transformers), and zombies. Superhero Zombies. The videogame alone would be worth trillions of dollars.Geoff Klockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-30652913688060467052007-06-30T16:58:00.000-04:002007-06-30T16:58:00.000-04:00I agree pretty much whole heartedly with you here,...I agree pretty much whole heartedly with you here, except I actually enjoyed the quips along the way. However, that may be due to my really liking Justin Long. <BR/><BR/>Also, I think we do see a vulnerable hero in the scene where they are driving and Willis is going on about what actually happens to a "hero." I am not sure if you have ever seen an episode of "24" but that scene reminded me a lot of Keifer Sutherland's Jack Bauer and made me wish for a McClane/Bauer buddy film.Kyle Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357250888692234136noreply@blogger.com